A powerful and thought provoking piece, dear Damian! Puppets on the string which move to every command of the puppeteer are easily to control…
To follow the drum of your heartbeat was a good idea! Your free rhyming flows easily and naturally!

Excellent, see .. this is what happens when free verse becomes you .. its all prose from here and no cons .. write on .. Neville

I HATE corporations and Politicians. Your poem strikes a nerve which I can easily understand and agree with.

This is really good cuz. I don’t like politics, but you write this so well.

Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Mary. So glad you connected with the write my friend. Back at ya.. Appreciate you.

Damian

Fantastic work, my friend.

Two verses yet they tell the whole truth…. I don’t know how the human mind and spirit will survive and deal with all these negative rushes all around and everywhere… The problem that even when You are conscious and doing what You should do, the environment around You is saying another thing, and we both know how the surrounding affects us and now we need extra extra work! Yes I do appreciate old times. Great write my friend.

You know, the number of poetic rants I’ve written this year alone actually depresses me. It never seems to end. Spilling their lies and spewing their hate on the daily. Everyone I know is numb and fighting fatigue from it all. I’ll keep spilling truth if you do, my friend

I fall for your poetry every time Brenda. Love the wording and atmosphere. Great image too. xox

Powerfully penned, Brenda. Incredible write my friend. Appreciate you.

Damian

To us the perfect Halloween piece, and thanks for remembering Lady

From the title I connected your poem to writer’s block. I was like: thats interesting. I wonder what is Butcher’s block is like. Reading it reminded me somehow of Joe Goldberg from the series You. I enjoyed reading your poem. The ending was satisfying too. Lol

Yes you was the inspiration to this piece, and thank you Lady

So this was an agreement to do this? Still, she is the only one who survived, which means something.

Hahaha, everything means something, there isn’t anything created for nothing. Thank You Lady

We like the darkness associated with Halloween, it makes you want to do gross. Thanks Lady